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Franklin Leonard

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The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor.

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 1d

First of many. deadline.com/2025/10/then...

Black List-Discovered ‘Then He Was Gone’ Thriller Picked Up By Crooked Lane Books For 2026 Publication; Deal Is First From 2024 Fiction Program

A year after the Black List's foray into novel, thriller Then He Was Gone has a publisher & a 2026 release date.

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 2h

I mean, this was posted in 2023 so that tracks.

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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 9h

adhd is dying of thirst and looking over to see the glass of water on the counter you poured an hour ago mocking you

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 1d

First of many. deadline.com/2025/10/then...

Black List-Discovered ‘Then He Was Gone’ Thriller Picked Up By Crooked Lane Books For 2026 Publication; Deal Is First From 2024 Fiction Program

A year after the Black List's foray into novel, thriller Then He Was Gone has a publisher & a 2026 release date.

deadline.com

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 1d

I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 1d

First of many. deadline.com/2025/10/then...

Black List-Discovered ‘Then He Was Gone’ Thriller Picked Up By Crooked Lane Books For 2026 Publication; Deal Is First From 2024 Fiction Program

A year after the Black List's foray into novel, thriller Then He Was Gone has a publisher & a 2026 release date.

deadline.com

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The Black List @theblcklst.bsky.social · 1d

First of many.

Crooked Lane Books discovered Isabel Booth’s THEN HE WAS GONE on The Black List website and acquired it. Available Feb 24, 2026. Pre-order it now.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Robinson the GOAT

Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 2d

For all my fellow football sickos and the football curious… open.substack.com/pub/franklin...

Only the Story Outlives the Warrior

Why Nigeria v Benin is the week’s must-watch narrative

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6d

Drake lost that rap battle so badly that I wrote about it in my book about SPACE-TIME

A rap battle loss of literally cosmological proportions

Find out how by preordering a copy!!

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 6d

As I was saying... deadline.com/2025/10/crus...

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The Black List @theblcklst.bsky.social · 6d

Here’s some GOOD NEWS for your Thursday: Five manuscripts have been selected to receive a $10,000 grant as a part of the Spotify x Jed Foundation Impact Award initiative! Visit buff.ly/fJzAtn8 to read more about these projects exclusively in Publishers Weekly.

*drumroll please*

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The Black List @theblcklst.bsky.social · 8d

Great news for your Tuesday, writers! Submissions are NOW OPEN for the thirteenth annual Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship! buff.ly/asHpWwd

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The Black List @theblcklst.bsky.social · 11d

Two years ago today, @franklinleonard.bsky.social stopped by the Team Deakins podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about The Black List, screenwriting and all things movie-making.

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 14d

I know a particularly good way to find great, original, available screenplays... www.blcklst.com

Matt Belloni @mattbelloni.bsky.social · 14d

New pod: Why are more original screenplays selling to studios and streamers? And is the decline of the superhero movie a factor? With manager Geoff Shaevitz of Entertainment 360. Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/1UrG...

The Return of the Spec Script—Is There Hope for Original Screenplays in Hollywood?

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 17d

You are understanding the question perfectly and yes he does.

Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 17d

Little conversation going on over at the other place that some of y'all will enjoy:

“Which writers (or writing teams) have sole writing credit (or in the case of the teams, shared credit) on the three best smovies where they were not involved as director(s)?”

substack.com/chat/76856/p...

a man in a blue hoodie is taking notes in a notebook .

ALT: a man in a blue hoodie is taking notes in a notebook .

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Matthew @dlthings.bsky.social · 18d

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 18d

Yall did it again. Thank you.

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 18d

Asking again to please report this impersonator who has created yet another fake Franklin Leonard account. bsky.app/profile/fran...

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you all.

Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 18d

Do me a favor and report this account that is most assuredly not me or affiliated with me. bsky.app/profile/fran...

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 20d

Who are the best contemporary writers on heroism, on who human beings venerate - both globally and in specific cultural contexts - as heroes and why?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21d

Kimmel is up on YouTube

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 26d

Writers (of all stripes):

If someone really loves you, what writerly gifts are they buying you for birthdays/holidays/no reason at all?

(Looking for suggestions from the incredibly inexpensive to the truly ridiculous)

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